Monday, September 3, 2012

Rude treatment at the Republican National Convention sealed the deal - Ron Paul delegates are out. So are any other delegates that don't suit the intended nominee, or the incumbent. Don't like the rules? Just move the goalposts.

Rep. Paul will appear on the Leno show tomorrow night. What will he say? Third party candidate? Who knows? The producers say they never comment on a guest's motives for being on the show.

Ginsberg’s
version of Rule 12 empowers the RNC to bend its own rules to suit
their needs at any time without submitting the changes to party
members gathered at the quadrennial convention. This unprecedented
revision places the control of the GOP in the hands of the
Establishment candidate without suffering the inconvenience of
listening to dissenting voices. In the future the nomination of an
incumbent Republican president is guaranteed and upon leaving office,
he will be able to name his chosen successor through manipulation of
the party rules.

Curiously,
the driver of a bus carrying the delegate holding the official
objections to the proposed rule changes circled the venue refusing to
stop, causing that delegate to arrive too late to file the
objections. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) then proceeded
to call for a vote on Ginsberg’s rewrite of the Republican
rulebook.

Standing
at the podium and reading from a teleprompter, Boehner instructed
those in favor of the rules to say “aye” and those opposed to say
“nay.”

Video of the vote clearly demonstrates that those against the adoption of the
Romney-friendly rules numbered at least as many as those in favor. In
light of the closeness of the voice vote, Boehner should have called
for a roll call vote rather than a voice vote. But in another example
of unexplained deviation from applicable Republican Party protocol,
Boehner ignored the dissenting votes, declaring, “The ayes have
it.”